Changes to Council Tax support

Example support calculations

We have prepared some examples to help explain how the new Council Tax support calculations are made.

Weekly wage with child support

Miss J lives in a band A property. She earns £320 and receives £21.15 in child support.

We ignore the child support amount and apply the percentage only to her wage.

Based on this case it’s 20% of £28.71 (the weekly Council Tax amount), so we provide £5.74 in Council Tax support.

Universal Credit 

Mr and Mrs X live in a band B property, their Council Tax is £33.50 per week. They receive universal credit of £1400 per month, this is made up of:

  • £525 personal element
  • £585 in housing element
  • £290 in child element

We do not count the amount they are getting for their housing element and use the remaining monthly figure of £815 to calculate the support amount.

This works out to £188.08 per week, so they receive 40% in Council Tax support. In this case we provide £13.40 per week towards their Council Tax.

Disability claims with one person working

Mr and Mrs M live in a band D property, so their Council Tax is £43.07 per week. Mr M receives disability benefit and is not working. Mrs M works and brings home £260 per week.

We ignore the first £50 of Mrs M's income, so she falls into a lower earnings band.

This means we provide a higher percentage of support (40%), providing £17.23 per week towards their Council Tax.